Cleanup logs

[bjarnef]

Sometimes the number of logs on disk can grow a lot over time and eventually take up disk space - especially on Starter Plan:
#905

We can access Kudo, download "Logs" folder and delete it afterwards or just each individual file.

However it would be great if it was possible to cleanup older logs older than xx days or before date yyyy-MM-dd.
If not via portal, perhaps a command to make it easier clear older log files?

In both cases, recommend to download "Logs" folder first before deleting in case they are needed.

[bergmania]

Hi @bjarnef

Serilog should automatically clean up logs. By default Umbraco uses the default Serilog value, for retainedFileCountLimit = 31 log files.

You should be able to configure that in appsettings: https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/reference/configuration/serilog#changing-the-umbraco-sink

[bjarnef]

Thanks. For this specific project on Umbraco Cloud we can't deploy further changes as the disk space is used. 🙈

But I guess it may be possible to change via secrets perhaps?

[BenDuguid-MRM]

In addition to this, production logs can get too big for Umbraco to load and parse - might be better to use Database or Table Storage sinks instead?

[bergmania]

Just an update here:

We found an issue that Serilog do only cleanup file on the same server as they was created (server name is part of the file name serilog knows). We are working together with the CMS Group to figure out how to best solve this.

[BenDuguid-MRM]

@bergmania any update on the cleanup updates?

[BenDuguid-MRM]

Or perhaps switch to using Table Storage alongside the Blob Storage for media offload?